That one in particular drew thousands of retweets, along with general scorn, outrage and even a few death threats.

Mentions feed snowballing, @CurvedDaily (one of many who regurgitated the joke) decide to tackle the misdirected venom head-on, insisting it was a joke and questioning how people genuinely thought that someone who has lived in the UK all their life could have not heard of Macca.

Then he just gave in and trolled everyone, pretending to be even more stupid.

come on guys, the whole thing was a joke and you've gone too far, i LOVE the beatles, paul mccarthy, ringo star, jay leno and the other one